A FIGHT between a husband and wife in Mbare, Harare, took a turn for the worst after the 20-year-old woman stabbed him in the stomach with a kitchen knife. Miriam Moyo is said to have stabbed her husband Brendon Makumbe, 24, after an argument broke out after she caught him drinking alcohol. State prosecutor Kelvin…
NOTORIOUS armed robber Musa Taj Abdul and his accomplices Charles Lundu and Sean Andile Dhlamini have been found guilty of 13 counts of armed robbery. Abdul, who was on the police’s most wanted list for nearly 20 years, and his co-accused were convicted after a full trial. Lundu and Abdul are currently serving a four-year…
HARARE magistrate Yeukai Dzuda will hand down her judgment on January 12 next year in a matter in which former Zengeza West MP Job Sikhala and Chitungwiza former mayor Lovemore Maiko are facing public violence charges. Maiko and Sikhala were on trial for disorderly conduct after allegedly disrupting a Zanu PF rally hosted by Charamba…
FORMER Zengeza West MP Job Sikhala has accused the State of fabricating allegations against him. He appeared at the Harare Magistrates’ Courts yesterday for the continuation of his trial for allegedly inciting public violence that broke out in Nyatsime, Chitungwiza, last year following the death and mutilation of Moreblessing Ali.The deceased was a Citizens Coalition…
A SUSPECTED robber and four accomplices reportedly pretended to be Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) officers investigating a case before they broke into a house in Mufakose, Harare, and stole US$5 000, US$8 000 airtime and mobile phones. Liberty Corbette Magomo, 42, of Belvedere, Harare, was facing armed robbery charges when he was arraigned before Harare…
A STATE witness in the trial of Ivy Kombo and her husband Admire Kasi yesterday confessed that she was the one who had delivered the allegedly fraudulent conversion certificates and collected the US$2 200. Kombo and Kasi are facing fraud and perjury charges after allegedly using fake conversion certificates to get registered as legal practitioners…
HIGH Court judge, Justice Amy Tsanga, has blocked the eviction of over 40 families in Chitungwiza whose homes were set to be demolished to pave the way for the construction of a company site. The judge’s order comes after 18 of the affected homeowners approached the court seeking to stop an eviction and demolition order…
FORMER Kambuzuma, Harare, MP Tinashe Maduza and his accomplice Rast Phiri, who were arrested last Friday on charges of fraud, have been granted US$50 bail each at the Harare Magistrates Court. The two had been arraigned before a Harare magistrate, accused of illegally selling land to one Victor Magenga.When they appeared yesterday before Harare magistrate…
FORMER Mabvuku-Tafara MP, Munyaradzi Kufahakutizwi, who was arrested on Tuesday, has been charged with assault and malicious damage to property. The former lawmaker was granted free bail by Harare magistrate Ethel Chichera on the same day and will return to court on January 23 for routine remand.Kufahakutizwi, who was barred from participating in the recently…
A WITNESS in the fraud and perjury trial of popular gospel singer Ivy Kombo and her husband Admire Kasi, yesterday told the Harare Magistrate’s Court that there was a possibility that the couple could have been exempted from writing law conversion examinations. Kombo and Kasi are currently on trial after being accused of using fake…
